writing and research

I am not that good at marketing and promoting my freelance business so recently I have been setting myself tasks in each of these areas to improve my progress. This last few months I have tried to be more proactive in selling my services, and I have to say it has paid off.

I have picked up a couple of regular clients, large orders, at a rate of pay that is not great, but it is acceptable. When it comes to freelance writing

Webmasters’ Forums

There are good and bad Webmasters’ forums, especially when it comes to marketing your writing. Certain forums in particular attract people who will offer to write 500 words for a dollar. Very often, the person buying them finds they are often badly written and sometimes plagiarised, which means he or she has to get them written again. Having said that, there are still plenty of people buying this stuff. f you are new to freelancing and have tried some of these forums you will know what I mean. It is possible however, to advertise your services on a forum and get a decent rate of pay.

It is a good idea to try webmaster forums ending in .co.uk. They may not pay a huge amount but if you offered to write an article of 500 words for £4 you would end up with $6.50 US, not a lot I’ll grant you, but seven times more than some people want to pay.

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I have just finished reading ‘Do You Recognize the Early Warning Signs of Freelance Writing Burnout’ over at Freelance Folder and have to admit that I have been down this route more than once. When you are trying to run your own freelance writing and research business it is all too easy to keep pushing yourself until your writing becomes stale and wooden. I’d all ready posted on the RA page here how RA and its associated fatigue can interfere with your writing life, so I suppose people who do suffer from rheumatoid arthritis need to be doubly aware of burnout.

Permission to Take a Break

Sometimes we just have ot give ourselves permission to take a break from the business of freelance writing without feeling guilty. Learning to pace yourself as a writer will not only help to prevent total burnout, it should add more freshness to yur writing. I know full well that by the time I have written ten articles on bad credit or on home insurance, I am beginning to wonder whether sanity has gone out of the window. I’ve found that breaking up tasks and working on one project for part of the time and then on another, helps to break up the day and give me a fresh perspective on the rest of the project.

Most freelance writers will have experienced burnout at some stage of their career, the secret (as the above post appeared to be saying) is to recognize what is happening and to do something about it before catastrophe strikes. Try taking your laptop to the local coffee shop for an hour or two. Sometimes a change of surrooundings can do wonders for flagging creativity. So, take a break, pace yourself, write somewhere else, and last but not least be kind to yourself.

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